An investigation of the transient behavior of stationary queueing systems

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1981.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY.Bibliography: leaves 199-201.by Emily Jane Roth.Ph.D

A domain specific language for dynamic interest management within virtual environments

Interest management is a widely used term within the area of virtual environments. It is so widely used that there even exist many synonyms for the concept. Thus both the terminology, and meaning of the concept are currently not well defined. The typical aim of interest management techniques within virtual environments has been to increase scalability. However, this thesis argues that the concept of interest management should not be so tightly coupled with the goal of scalable virtual environments, but be a concept in its own right, i.e. the management of interests. The main focus of this thesis is the representation of expressions of interest. The various techniques for expressing interest are surveyed and evaluated, providing the basis for the research into a suitable representation. This representation is achieved in two stages. The first part of this thesis introduces a novel dynamic interest management technique based upon set theory. It describes how it is expressive enough to implement most of the static interest management techniques currently available such as categorisation, locales, and interacting locales. By de-coupling the logic that implements these interests from the virtual environment, it can also describe how interests can be changed during the virtual environment's execution, thus making the technique dynamic. Enforcing and denying interests is also considered, allowing for the enforcement of interests integral to the requirements of the virtual environment. An example of this is denying the user the ability to be interested in artefacts that aren't visible. The new approach presented is implemented with SQL, and evaluated. The second part of this thesis focusses on the limitations of using SQL as an implementation language, focussing on issues of readability and succinctness and a lack of any abstraction mechanisms. Overcoming these limitations is treated as the primary design goal for a new domain specific language for representing interests. The thesis introduces this language, Wish, and evaluates it within the domain, demonstrating that it is as expressive as SQL yet is more readable, conceptually succinct and allows for arbitrary abstraction of complexity.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Bowdoin Orient v.91, no.1-19 (1961-1962)

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A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 6: Periodical Articles, Subject Listing, By De Waal Category

This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 6 presents the periodical literature arranged by subject categories (as originally devised for the De Waal bibliography and slightly modified here)

A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 5: Periodical Articles--Secondary References, Alphabetical Listing

This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 5 includes "passing" or "secondary" references, i.e. those entries that are passing in nature or contain very brief information or content

A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 9: All Formats—Combined Alphabetical Listing

This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. This volume contains all listings in all formats, arranged alphabetically by author or main entry. In other words, it combines the listings from Volume 1 (Monograph and Serial Titles), Volume 3 (Periodical Articles), and Volume 7 (Audio/Visual Materials) into a comprehensive bibliography. (There may be additional materials included in this list, e.g. duplicate items and items not yet fully edited.) As in the other volumes, coverage of this material begins around 1994, the final year covered by De Waal's bibliography, but may not yet be totally up-to-date (given the ongoing nature of this bibliography). It is hoped that other titles will be added at a later date. At present, this bibliography includes 12,594 items